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The Great New Orleans Gun Grab

A searing expose' of the scandal of gun confiscations that occurred in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Lest we ever forget.

The Quest and the Quarry

A hunting story of the Deep South. How generations of kids from a farming family are taught the lessons of life through the experience of the hunt by one wise old grandfather, and a line of trophy bucks they pursue.

About Me

Author: "THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS GUN GRAB" (with Todd Masson), an expose' of the anarchy and outrageous behavior of civil authorities who confiscated thousands of guns from law-abiding citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Also the author of "THE QUEST AND THE QUARRY"--a southern novel of the hunt.
Firearms columnist for LOUISIANA, NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, and MISSISSIPPI SPORTSMAN magazines.
Founding Member of the
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Training Officer and Spokesperson
for the Lunatic Fringe.
Unapologetic Gun Nut
(with apologies to David E. Petzal.) Former Airborne Infantry Officer (82nd Airborne Division.) Former law enforcement firearms instructor. Current concealed carry instructor.
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Katrina Survivors Take Arms

Jo Ann Guidos, owner of Kajun's Bar, stood off looters with her handguns, Remington 1100 shotgun, and a motley crew of regulars at her bar. They are shown here standing outside the bar a day or two before her guns were confiscated by U.S. Marshals as she was attempting to load her vehicles and get out of the madness of New Orleans. Photo courtesy of Jo Ann Guidos

"8 Bodies In Place"

These are the ubiquitous signs--the hex symbols of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Teams would spray the signs on the outside of buildings once they had been searched. At the top was the date of the search. On each side of the "X" was the numerical identifier of the unit conducting the search. At the bottom of the symbol was the number of bodies found in the building. In this case, eight people were found in Jo Ann Guido's bar. If the bodies were not alive, the more chilling "Dead" would be added under the number. Photo courtesy Jo Ann Guidos.

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Jeep was almost sliding down the rocky, shale-strewn mountainside at a steep 15 degree angle when Larry Wieshuhn, our driver, stood on the brake.

These Texas rock piles, small mountains in the hill country northwest of San Antonio, are treacherous and slippery, particularly when following another vehicle. The Jeep in front nearly slid off the road in front of us, and Wieshuhn slammed on the brakes.

My new Ruger American Rifle, outfitted with a Harris bipod, strap-on cheekpad, and Zeiss 3 X 9 Conquest scope, broke through the bungee cord holding it upright in the gun rack, and came slamming down between me and Weishuhn, hitting the top of the dash with the barrel hard enough to ding the sheet metal.

Mouthing a curse, I stood the rifle back in its stand and tied it in place, while trying to maintain my equilibrium in a tilted vehicle.

I glanced back at the rear passengers on the elevated safari seat who were bracing themselves against the Jeep’s padded roll bar.

Mark Gurney, Ruger engineer, and project manager on the new Ruger American Rifle, shrugged his shoulders slightly. “It’s OK,” he deadpanned, looking at the disgust on my face.

“Even so,” I said, “before I get into another shooting contest with this crowd, I want to check it again.”

The next range was located a couple hundred feet up on the top of another shale pile. It overlooked three intersecting canyons with target gongs placed on the sides of the canyons out to 1000 yards away.
But because it is a distance and down angle range, there is a 100 yard test range next to it.

I have seen blows like that knock a scope/rifle out of alignment up to 18” from point-of-aim. But in testament to the strength of the Weaver mounts (included with the package when you buy the rifle), or the quality of the Zeiss Conquest scope, the rifle only fired 1.5 inches high and 1” to the right—still in acceptable hunting accuracy.

I brought it back to its baseline zero of dead point of aim at 100 yards, and fired two shots for group. They landed on the center of the 3” round orange target within ½” of each other. I was ready.

Ruger had flown a group of 12 gun writers into this country about 80 miles northwest of San Antonio to introduce this innovative new bolt gun, and let us try it out while experiencing SAAM—Sportsman’s All-Weather, All-Terrain Marksmanship school.

SAAM is the brainchild of owner Tim Fallon, owner of the FTW Ranch, who is also one of the world-class riflery instructors with the school.

His cohort, compatriot, and chief instructor is Doug “Dog” Prichard, a 26-year Navy warrant officer, with 25 years in SEAL, most as a sniper-instructor.

The FTW Ranch encompasses 12,000 acres and specializes in exotic game, whitetails, specialized accuracy training, safari and dangerous game training, and rocks. Lord, the rocks. This is a rockhound’s paradise.These craggy low mountains have an almost moon-like desert atmosphere, and Jeeps are utilized to go all over it, because you are generally going in one of two directions—up, or down.

Ruger had arranged for us to experience a shortened version of the SAAM course which prepares hunters to make clean, ethical kills at ranges most of them would have considered impossible.

Of course, the rifle we used would be the hottest new bolt gun on the market, the Ruger American Rifle. We were there to “wring it out,” and over the next three days, we would shoot these innovative firearms at some incredibly long ranges, in some really trying conditions. I will tell you the rifles and scopes performed immeasurably well.

Designed by Ruger to enter the market at a lower-end price point, the rifles have a number of innovative manufacturing designs that lower cost while enhancing accuracy potential. They are also 100% American made.

“Ten months,” Gurney had told us. “From initial idea, through design, engineering, and finally tooled-up and manufacturing, we brought this rifle to market in ten months.” It has a manufacturers suggested retail price of $449.00.

“We fully expect,” Gurney said, “retailers will be selling this rifle for $349.00. And really aggressive retailers will likely be hitting around the $300.00 mark.”

Ahem. That is, as they say, a really cheap price. When you consider what goes into the package, you wonder how they do it.

The rifle has a 22” chrome-moly hammer-forged barrel. This is screwed into a receiver which holds a bolt milled from one solid piece of steel.

The bolt has a 70 degree throw, which is considered by Ruger to be optimum

in leverage power, while still amply clearing the scope. The bolt contains three locking lugs, and two cocking cams. This demands only six pounds of pressure on the bolt handle to raise it, cocking the gun.

It also allows for a slicker-than-glass action reminiscent of action jobs in custom bolt guns costing upwards and more than one thousand dollars.

The trigger is newly designed by Ruger—they call it their “Ruger Marksman Adjustable Trigger.”
Any comments that it looks for all the world like the popular Savage Accu-Trigger are quickly stopped by Gurney.

“It’s not an Accu-Trigger,” he said. “We designed this as a double safety mechanism, and made the trigger easily adjustable by the owner from three to five pounds.

The trigger safety completely blocks the trigger until it is compressed deeply enough to start engaging the actual trigger.

More innovation is in the rotary box magazine that holds four rounds of .30-06, .308, .270, or .243 in this initial design. (More calibers are planned in later production runs.)

The magazine snaps firmly into the well beneath the chamber, and is loaded in the conventional way by compressing the follower on the spring, and sliding the rounds under the magazine lips.

We were loading and shooting the extremely accurate Hornady 168 grain A-Max (Match) bullets in .30-06—and the rifles seemed to love the round, giving exceptional accuracy right out of the boxes—the first day every rifle shot under an inch at 100 yards.

Gurney saw us loading the magazines in the conventional way, and showed us a trick. “Press the round right down through the magazine lips.”

We tried it, and the molded plastic gives just enough to let the rounds slip through with authority, and holds them firmly in the magazine.

“Yeah,” he said, to the unspoken question. “Doing it that way will reduce the life of the magazine. You’ll go down from 5000 rounds to 3000 rounds. If you wear it out, call me. I’ll send you another one.”

The black, injection-molded stock holds the barrel in a completely free-floated condition. The first thing I did when I was issued “my” rifle was slide a dollar bill between the forearm and the barrel—all the way to where the barrel is screwed into the receiver.

Most rifles are bedded with some sort of recoil lug off the bottom of the front of the receiver, which transmits the recoil “impulse” to the stock.

This is an important part of the accuracy potential of any rifle. If the recoil impulse is not distributed evenly to the stock, the receiver can flex, causing erratic fluctuations in the barrel harmonics, and seriously affect bullet grouping.

Ruger has taken this two steps further by incorporating TWO bedding blocks, and having them molded into the stock when it is formed. Thus you have an absolute perfect fit between bedding block and stock, and the receiver is bolted down into a block front and rear—this ensures the receiver remains perfectly straight with recoil.

Finally, Ruger looked at the recoil pad. They needed to. The rifle weighs a feathery 6.25 pounds before adding a scope. That’s light. And if something isn’t done to tame the recoil, it will pay you back for your demand for a light, inexpensive, easily-handled, and accurate rifle.

Most recoil pads are hollowed out from the outside in. Ruger hollowed theirs from the inside out—making a more absorbent pad that soaks up the sharp recoil from a .30-06 168 grain projectile very effectively.

We preceded to shoot these rifles on various ranges at various elevations under the tutelage of Tim Fallon and “Dog” Prichard.

I rang gongs at ranges out to 690 yards with consistency, and was extremely impressed with the ease of handling and accuracy of this new rifle.

In the final contest, we fired a 20-station course out to 535 yards, adjusting the Zeiss scopes accordingly for distance.

I missed three shots out of 20 for a combined score of 86 out of 100, the highest in our group. I can attribute the misses to poor judgment on windage, or trigger pull, but I absolutely cannot fault the rifle.

The highest praise I can give a rifle is a quote attributed to Colonel Townshend Whelen, a world-famous rifle shooter, gun writer, and developer of the .35 Whelen cartridge.

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